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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.
Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
Scandal is the press agent of old age
Scandal is the press agent of old age
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we
are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
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The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we
are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit:
Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.]
And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
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And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but borne to die.
